The War and Unity Being Lectures Delivered At The Local Lectures Summer Meeting Of The University Of Cambridge, 1918   By: D. H. S. (David Herbert Somerset) Cranage (1866-1957)

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THE WAR AND UNITY

BEING LECTURES DELIVERED AT THE LOCAL LECTURES SUMMER MEETING OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, 1918

EDITED BY THE REV. D. H. S. CRANAGE, LITT.D. KING'S COLLEGE

CAMBRIDGE AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1919

PREFACE

For some time past the Local Examinations and Lectures Syndicate have arranged a Summer Meeting in Cambridge every other year in connexion with the Local Lectures. The scheme of study has always included a number of theological lectures, and at the last two meetings an attempt has been made to deal with some of the religious and moral problems suggested by the War. In 1916 a course of lectures was delivered, and afterwards published by the University Press, on The Elements of Pain and Conflict in Human Life . In 1918 the Syndicate decided to arrange a course on Unity. It was at first suggested that the lectures should be confined to the subject of Christian Reunion, but it was finally arranged to deal not only with Unity between Christian Denominations, but with Unity between Classes, Unity in the Empire, and Unity between Nations.

Many of those who attended expressed a strong wish that the lectures should be published, and the Lecturers and the Syndicate have cordially agreed to their request. The central idea of the course is undeniably vital at the present time, and the book is now issued in the hope that it may be of some help in the period of "reconstruction."

D. H. S. CRANAGE, Secretary of the Cambridge University Local Lectures. November 1918.

CONTENTS

UNITY BETWEEN CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS

I. A GENERAL VIEW PAGE 1

By the Reverend V. H. Stanton, D.D., Fellow of Trinity College, Regius Professor of Divinity.

II. THE CHURCH IN THE FURNACE 25

By the Reverend Eric Milner White, M.A., D.S.O., Fellow and Dean of King's College, late Chaplain to the Forces.

III. THE PROBLEM OF THE ENGLISH FREE CHURCHES 51

By the Reverend W. B. Selbie, M.A. (Oxford and Cambridge), Hon. D.D. (Glasgow), Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford.

IV. THE SCOTTISH PROBLEM 72

By the Very Reverend James Cooper, D.D. (Aberdeen), Hon. Litt.D. (Dublin), Hon. D.C.L. (Durham), V.D., Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Glasgow, ex Moderator of the Church of Scotland.

UNITY BETWEEN CLASSES

I. By the Right Reverend F. T. Woods, D.D., Trinity College, Lord Bishop of Peterborough 89

II. By the Right Honourable J. R. Clynes, M.P., Minister of Food 115

UNITY IN THE EMPIRE

By F. J. Chamberlain, C.B.E., Assistant General Secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association 137

UNITY BETWEEN NATIONS

By the Reverend J. H. B. Masterman, M.A., St John's College, Rector of St Mary le Bow Church, Canon of Coventry, late Professor of History in the University of Birmingham 151

UNITY BETWEEN CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS

I. A GENERAL VIEW

By the Rev. V. H. STANTON, D.D.